adagium

Meaning

proverb, adage

proverb

proverbium

παροιμία

adagi

Pronounced as (IPA)

[aˈdaː.ɡi.ũː]

A later variant of adā̆giō, ostensibly from ad- (“toward, to”) + aiō (“say”), but due to sporadic attestation and the word-internal a might not be inherited and rather formed to adigō (“drive, hurl, compel”), from ad- (“toward, to”) + agō (“do, make”). The word-internal a may be either by the same vowel harmony as in alacer, calamitās, segetis, or else means the vowel is long - cf. indāgō, contāgiō/contāgēs, as well as the fact that Varro associates it with ambāgiō, a variant of ambāgēs (“circumlocution”).